Judge to decide if Texas too slow in improving foster care — and deserves penalty
A showdown started Monday in Dallas over whether Gov. Greg Abbott and two state agencies should be held in contempt of court for failing to make needed improve…
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This Texas homeless response system is housing more people per month than ever before
DALLAS -- Once without a home, Diamond Wallace, 30, is glad to have a daily bath, personal privacy and a safe place to rest his head each night. When his grand…
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'Medical freedom' activists take aim at new target: Childhood vaccine mandates
JACKSON, Miss. -- For more than 40 years, Mississippi had one of the strictest school vaccination requirements in the nation, and its high childhood immunizati…
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Court orders Texas to move floating buoy barrier that drew backlash from Mexico
McALLEN, Texas -- Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, dealing a blow to …
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Dead longhorn found on Oklahoma State fraternity lawn the day before championship game with Texas
Police say a dead longhorn cow was found on the lawn of an Oklahoma State University fraternity on Friday, the day before the school's football team plays the …
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Texarkana law firm representing woman who alleges Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is her father
DALLAS -- A woman who says Jerry Jones is her biological father refiled a defamation lawsuit this week alleging the Dallas Cowboys owner and his associates wor…
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Safety officials release details of their investigation into a close call between planes in Texas
DALLAS -- The air traffic controller on duty when FedEx and Southwest planes nearly collided earlier this year in Texas told investigators that he expected the…
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Inside two mining operations turning Texas power into crypto profits
Amid the loud fans and a towering wall of supercomputers, a digital gold rush is taking place in Texas.
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Top execs plead guilty to kickback scheme in Dallas medical fraud case
DALLAS -- Five years after federal agents left a northwest Dallas office building in May 2018 with boxes holding the documents of a healthcare company, five of…
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Texas city approves $3.5 million for child who witnessed aunt’s fatal shooting by officer
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas city on Tuesday approved a $3.5 million settlement for a child who witnessed his aunt being fatally shot through a window of her h…
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Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue sentenced to 10 years
AUSTIN -- A Texas man who set fire to an Austin synagogue in an antisemitic attack two years ago was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison.
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Jan. 6 suspect who later fired a gun toward Texas officers gets 2 years for firearm charge
DALLAS -- A Texas man who shot toward sheriff's deputies who were making a welfare call to his house on the day he had agreed to surrender on charges for takin…
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Texas is moving a century-old battleship in hopes it will attract more tourists
(Bloomberg) -- If your tourist attraction isn't bringing in enough attendees - move it.
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Texas governor skydives for first time alongside 106-year-old World War II veteran
FENTRESS, Texas -- Add this to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott 's high ambitions: Parachuting from a plane.
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Sandy Hook families offer to settle Alex Jones’ $1.5 billion legal debt for a minimum of $85 million
Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a ho…
